"The vigilance and outrage demonstrated on Twitter are necessary, not because the folks at Amazon are bad people, but because the books that were de-ranked were de-ranked because it is always the outsider whose books get de-ranked and “mainstream” society and the capitalist institutions that operate within it, whether my old company or Amazon, must self-police ruthlessly in order to guard against this kind of thing happening.

Yeah. I mean an official corporate "It was some French guy!" isn't exactly a ringing exoneration proving that Amazon was completely innocent in every way, even though some people seem eager to take it as such. And given the frequency with which this targeting does happen, it's worthwhile to subject apparent targeting to intensive scrutiny and attention.

book: More if You've Got It; iD; Little Dorrit; America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't; Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes; Death comes to the Archbishop; Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted; The Book of Ice; To Be or Not to Be; Area 51

comics:Captain Marvel; Genshiken; Sailor Moon; Yotsuba!&

teevee: A Touch of Cloth 2

dvd:The World's End; This Hour Has 22 Minutes; Futurama; The Avengers; John Dies at the End